A big problem in schools is the troubling number of students who read below their grade level. Nadine Gaab, Ph.D., an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, says ...

Nearly a year ago, when Education Week hosted an online conference about adolescent literacy across the content areas, we got a lot of interested and enthusiastic responses from participants. But we ...

For many, the “science of reading” has become synonymous with phonics instruction. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have said the movement to align reading instruction with what the research ...

Almost five years have passed since COVID-19 first disrupted America's schools, and new data, known as the Nation's Report Card, offers cause for hope — and concern. The good news: In math, many ...

Dyslexia, which manifests itself in difficulties with reading and writing, affects about 10% of children. Previously, it was believed that its cause lies solely in problems with phonology or vision, ...

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